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Are Robotic Lawn Mowers Safe You�re standing in your front yard minding your own
business when a robot with three razor sharp blades spinning at 5,800 rpm starts
racing toward you. What do you do post by haiyan701? Is this some kind of
nightmare? No, you�re awake and this is really happening, so once again, what do
you do?The answer is nothing. It will just bounce off you and go another
direction. Rather anti-climatic ending wasn�t it? That is just the way the
robotic lawn mower companies want it to be.The greatest concern most people have
about robotic lawn mowers is safety. �Bots with Blades� just can�t be safe.
According to Ames Tiedeman, National Sales Manager for Systems Trading Corp.,
the US distributor for the Friendly Robotics Robomower, over 72,000 emergency
room visits involved lawn mowers in 2005. ZERO involved robotic lawn
mowers.These mowers have so many safety features and shut-off triggers that it
is amazing that they are actually functional Charlotte Olympia. The Friendly
Robotics Robomower turns the blades off at 16 degrees, not even high enough to
get a hand under. Even if a small hand could get under, the blades are far back
and recessed into a chamber in the body. It would take creativity, not
stupidity, to get to the blades while they are still turning.Unlike push and
riding lawn mower safety devices, robotic lawn mower features are not easily
disabled. The tilt detection devices are soldered on to the main boards. Even
the resistance against the blades and the ability of the software to stop them
is measured in thousandths of seconds.Since these robotic lawn mowers are
designed to mulch there is no easy outlet for flying debris. Pebbles and pine
cones do not get tossed very far and at low velocity.Some robotic lawn mowers
have sonar detection systems that if any moving objects get close they�ll slow
down and at another point stop the blade before even being touched. All have
some sort of touch sensors that when they lightly bump into a stationary object
that they change direction. So actually getting run over is unlikely.Another big
concern is pets getting chopped to bits, again, no reported accidents involving
robotic lawn mowers Charlotte Olympia.
Dogs have a tendency to chase and bark, but not attack. A dog actually chewing
up a robotic lawn mower is more feasible than a robotic lawn mower chewing up a
dog.Robotic lawn mowers move relatively slow, people and animals can easily move
out of the way. Although it takes a lot longer to mow, if everyone used them
there would be 72,000 fewer hospital visits this year. This article was written
to educate people that robotic mowers under intended circumstances are safe.
There has been a great deal of thought and engineering involved to make robotic
lawn mowers safe for public use.
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